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Thomas Harold Amer (29 September 1923 – 17 November 2019), known professionally as Nicholas Amer, was an English stage, film and television actor known for his performances in William Shakespeare's plays. Amer made his professional debut in 1948 playing the part of Ferdinand in . In his long career, Amer played more than 27 different Shakespearean roles and toured to 31 different countries.

Amer was born in Tranmere, , . He served for five years during World War II in the as a wireless operator aboard Motor Torpedo Boats, first in , then in the Allied invasion of Sicily, where he was wounded in action.

Following in 1945, he studied at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art in for two years, winning the Webber Cup in his final year. He adopted the stage name Nicholas Amer and joined the Liverpool Playhouse under John Fernald. Together with Harold Lang, in 1963 he formed Voyage Theatre as a vehicle for performing Shakespeare's plays overseas.

Amer's many roles included those of , Laertes (three times), , Ferdinand (three times), , Donalbain and, as he got older, Julius Caesar, and Macduff. In the 1980s he toured the US playing in an production of . His London stage appearances included A Man for All Seasons with , Captain Brassbound's Conversion with and The Wolf with and .

Amer's first film part was as a 'pot boy' in (1950) with and . Other film appearances included in Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972), Al-risâlah (The Message) (1976) starring , in Nelson's Touch (1979), The Prince and the Pauper with , Mallarmé in Gauguin the Savage (1980), 's The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) with Anthony Higgins and , again in A Man for All Seasons (1988), Ben Gunn in a re-make of Treasure Island (1990) with , The Whipping Boy (1994), The Deep Blue Sea (2011) with and , The Awakening (2011) with , a short, Heroes Return (2012) for , playing the World War II veteran Private Jack Jennings, filmed on location in the Burmese jungle on the border with Thailand, and his final film appearances playing Oggie in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and as Mr Abney in the film (short) adaptation of released in 2018.

His many TV credits, starting in the early 1950s, included Hamlet (1961), The Avengers (1963), I, Claudius (1976), The Professionals (1979), If Tomorrow Comes (1986), Fortunes of War (1987), (1999), (2004), (2005) and Borgia (2011).

He also wrote numerous ballet and opera reviews for under his own name and under the pseudonym 'Kenneth Smart' and appeared in numerous TV commercials.


Biography

Family background and early life
Nicholas Amer was born on 29 September 1923 in Tranmere, , into a background. His father, Thomas Amer, was a bedroom steward aboard the liner RMS Laconia (and later aboard the Queen Mary), and his mother, Margaret (née Smart), had worked for in their soap factory. He was christened Thomas Harold Amer in St Luke's Church of England Church in Tranmere and thereafter called Harold by his parents, brother and two sisters. It was many years later that he changed his name to Nicholas for the stage.

Educated at the Ionic Street School in on and then at the Alpha Drive School (which later became Kirklands Secondary Modern School), he appeared in the latter's Christmas play Jim Davis, adapted by his English Master, in December 1936. His mother, in the audience that night, was never to see him perform again as she died a year later of . His father was hospitalised after a street accident the same year, forcing the 14-year-old Harold to leave school, get a job and take on some of the family responsibilities.


Career

Early career and Second World War
By the time war was declared, Amer was working as a clerk in the offices of P. & T. Fitzpatrick in , and then in 1941 he enlisted in the . Following training at what had been Butlins Holiday Camp in Skegness and then learning telegraphy at the training camp HMS Scotia in , Scotland, he became wireless telegrapher Amer, DJX 344924. He first served with a of Motor Torpedo Boats (MTBs) based at Weymouth in . Then he was posted to the 24th MTB Flotilla in Bône, North Africa to replace one of six 'Sparkers' killed in action in the . In Liverpool, on the last night of his embarkation leave, he wandered into the Playhouse to see Shakespeare's As You Like It, the cinemas all being full on that rainy evening. The performance impressed him so much that he decided that if he could survive the War he would become an actor and devote himself to acting Shakespeare's plays.

Next day he boarded a ship in Liverpool to join a to . Following 's defeat and the liberation of North Africa, Amer, now wireless operator aboard MTB 243, was sent to . In July 1943 the Allied Forces invaded Sicily and Amer took part in the invasion and those of southern France and Greece. During operations in Sicily, he was badly wounded in action but recovered in a field hospital near . When the war in Europe ended, his boat was seconded to , the United Nation's Relief and Rehabilitation Authority. A few weeks later the War finally ended before he could be sent to the to face the Japanese.


Acting early days
Demobilised in 1945, Amer returned to the Liverpool Playhouse and asked the stage door keeper for advice. The latter sent him to see the Director, John Fernald, who had also served in the Royal Navy during the War. Fernald, who was later to become Director of in 1955, recommended the Webber Douglas School in . Amer learned a from Richard II, took the train to London, did the audition and was accepted. In his first term at the drama school, Amer was cast as and was offered a two-year scholarship. In his final year he won the Webber Cup for Best Actor which was presented to him by Sir Donald Wolfit.

As a result of his award, John Fernald offered him a contract to join the Liverpool Playhouse repertory company, which Amer accepted. In September 1948 he became a professional actor and took the stage name Nicholas Amer. His success in the third play of that season, The Intruder, a translation of Asmodé by the French playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard, prompted Fernald to make him the Juvenile Lead of the company. In the final play of the season, Amer was cast as Ferdinand in , his first Shakespearean role as a professional actor.

Amer was essentially a rather than a . His first London play was Fernald's production of Pinero's The Schoolmistress at the , with Joan Harben, and the rising star of British films at the time, . When it finished, Fernald asked Amer to play a young American opposite in Rain Before Seven at the Embassy Theatre in London. The stars of this new play by Diana Morgan were Ronald Ward, Marian Spencer, and William Fox. However, following the first night, the headline ran "Rain Before Seven, ...Strain Before Eight", and the play bombed.

When the play failed to transfer to a bigger theatre, Amer was suddenly out of work. He was forced to sign on twice a week at the Labour Exchange and to find cheaper 'digs' (lodgings) in which to stay. Eventually Basil Jefferies of Renee Stepham Ltd took him on and acted as his agent. During this time he also accepted small television roles. In between these, he accepted an invitation to play Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice opposite Canadian actress Barbara Chilcott as Jessica for a tour of the Welsh valleys, for little money and travelling by coach, with the actors having to set the stage themselves and take it down after each performance.

Again out of work following the end of the tour, Amer worked at various times as a Christmas postman, a waiter at a on the Isle of Wight, and a worker at Wall's ice cream factory. He accepted an offer from Rep for a contract to share the task of playing leading roles in a different play each week with . The season included Henry V. Leading actor joined the company to play the lead role and Amer played the Dauphin of France. At that time he was recommended to who was casting for his forthcoming season of three plays at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, and Gielgud sent for him. Amer auditioned and was offered the role of Green in Gielgud's production of Richard II, which would star alongside , Pamela Brown, , and Herbert Lomas. In the other production of that season, Venice Preserv'd by , starring Gielgud opposite Eileen Herlie, and directed by , Amer played Ternon, one of the conspirators, and understudied to Eric Porter. Gielgud, who was in the new Queen's Coronation Honours List in 1953, announced that the Richard II production was being flown out to in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) as part of the centenary. It was Amer's first overseas tour.

Following the tour, Amer travelled to the to perform in a comedy, Blue for a Boy. John Fernald directed him once again in London, playing Razumikhin, with as Raskolnikov, in Crime and Punishment. The new young director Peter Hall asked him to play the bridegroom in Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding. offered him a season at The Old Vic, but only small parts and were on offer, except for a stint at the 1954 Edinburgh Festival as Donalbain in , with Paul Rogers and in the leading roles. In 1955, when Regent's Park Open Air Theatre offered him the chance to play Ferdinand in The Tempest, Amer persuaded Benthall to release him. He played Ferdinand for a second time, this time with as and James Maxwell as Ariel, and with June Bailey as Miranda, and then on alternate nights playing Percinet opposite Hilda Schroder in The Romanticks ( Les Romanesques), with character actors Russell Thorndike and Robert Atkins as the two fathers. He also performed Shakespeare live on TV, including playing Sebastian in Sunday Night Theatre's (1957) with as Viola in a production by Michael Elliott and . He showed his versatility by also appearing in the 1958 Keep Your Hair On at the in London, directed by and with settings and costumes designed by Tony Armstrong-Jones (later 1st Earl of Snowdon) and Desmond Heeley.

Amer's next big break came in 1958 when , director of the Wimbledon Theatre, chose him to play . All Hamlets then were middle-aged as it was thought essential to have the necessary experience. Amer was 35 years old, but looked ten years younger. The public found this young Hamlet easier to understand and reacted well. His new agent, Herbert de Leon, who wanted to get him away from Shakespeare for a while, sent him for an acting part in a musical called Chrysanthemum at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London. The choreographer, Alfred Rodrigues, had other ideas and cast him in a leading part as Pepe, the lead dancer, to play opposite and dance with the show's musical star, Patricia Kirkwood.

In 1960 following appearances in The Taming of the Shrew and The Apple Cart at the , the director Frank Hauser invited him to be part of an overseas tour to India, and (now ) with The Oxford Playhouse Company, playing in and directed by himself, and also to play Alex in T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party, directed by Harold Lang. This tour, and his meeting Harold Lang, would change his life and career profoundly.

Back in London and out of work again, Harold Lang asked Amer, along with fellow actor from the India tour, Greville Hallam, to join him teaching drama students at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. They spent almost a year writing a play together, based on their teaching of the techniques that an actor needs to bring Shakespeare's printed text to life, calling it Macbeth In Camera. At its first performance, at the Webber Douglas School, they invited representatives of the to see it. In April 1963, the Council, who had liked the play, offered them a tour of . They called their company 'Voyage Theatre'.


Voyage Theatre and the overseas tours
On 1 July 1963, the then four members of Voyage Theatre, Harold Lang, Greville Hallam, Ralph Gruskin and Nicholas Amer, arrived in . A packed audience, including Sir Alexander Morley, the British High Commissioner and his wife, saw their performance of Macbeth in Camera. "No question about its success," wrote Norman Rae, theatre critic of , while The Star ran "A refreshing and at times an exciting experience". Performances followed in Trinidad, Dominica, Antigua, Barbados, Peru, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina. In , their final venue, they were put into the Teatro Odeón, so heavy was the booking to see them. La Prensa's review next day said, "Very seldom can the word 'brilliant' be more appropriately applied than to this production". Later that year the four actors won a collective Best Foreign Actor Award at the Argentine Awards Ceremony in Buenos Aires.

The British Council next sent Voyage Theatre, described by senior executive Valerie West at the time as "four splendid ambassadors waving the flag for Britain," to India, Pakistan, , Iran ( and ) and Egypt ( and ) as part of their Shakespeare celebrations. The Council had also persuaded the Australia Council for the Arts to squeeze Voyage Theatre into their line-up for the next Adelaide Festival. On 2 March 1964, Amer arrived with his three fellow actors in Australia. They opened a week later and were enthusiastically received, their performance of Macbeth in Camera also being filmed by ABC Television for later transmission. They then flew to New Zealand under the auspices of the New Zealand Drama Council and gave performances in both islands.

Back home in London, Harold Lang wrote a new piece for Amer, Hallam and himself, Man Speaking, an examination of . Amer would do the poems of , Hallam those of and Lang would do the poems of . Meanwhile Voyage Theatre played the City of London Festival and the King's Lynn Literature Festival, before flying off again to Australia, this time to play and but also, at the Australian Arts Council's request, to tour extensively all over New South Wales and Victoria. In December 1964, they performed at the Hong Kong Arts Festival then returned to in Nepal (this time at the King's request), India (), Turkey ( and ) and Egypt (Cairo), then back to London. In May 1965 they travelled to Switzerland (, , and ) and then back to the UK for performances in and the in London. In December of that year they toured to Turkey (Istanbul and Ankara) with Man Speaking and also to () en route to yet another return visit to New Zealand and Australia.

Voyage Theatre prepared itself for its longest engagement yet: they would spend six months visiting , and in New Zealand and then Sydney, Melbourne, , and the Perth International Arts Festival in Australia, with both pieces and including a third play A Sleep of Prisoners by . In July 1966 the Ralph Zulueta took them over and billed them as 'The Intellectual Beatles', opening in to a packed Independent Theatre where the famous pop group had just played. In August 1967 there was a tour to the in Caesarea and in October one to , Belgium for two performances of both plays. The following year in May 1968, Voyage Theatre travelled to the Berlin Festival, performed Epicœne, or The silent woman by at the Oxford Playhouse in September and travelled to the Belfast Festival at Queen's in in November. The following year brought a run of By-Play, a double bill of The Technicians and The Straight Man at the Phoenix Theatre, . In 1970 , Rubin & Firth (South Africa) asked Amer to play opposite in Anthony Shaffer's play Sleuth in and . Amer accepted, and it ran for over a year.


Life, almost without Shakespeare
Nicholas Amer was the last surviving member of the original four actors who made up Voyage Theatre. Harold Lang had died of a heart attack in Cairo in 1970, Greville Hallam had "died tragically, aged 48" in London in 1982, and Ralph Gruskin was killed in a street accident in Rome. The actors Lorne Cosette and David Kelsey had briefly been members following Ralph Gruskin's departure. Amer, now in his mid-40s, had settled firmly in London with his partner and decided not to revive it.

In the 1970s, Amer continued his acting career in the UK, appearing in Molière's at the Oxford Playhouse in 1973, as Solanio in The Merchant of Venice and the Head Waiter in Ferenc Molnár's The Wolf (Oxford, then London) in 1973/74.

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A Man For All Seasons (role of followed in with James Maxwell in the lead role. Then he played Captain Scott of the Antarctic in The Captain, written and devised by John Carroll and , in the Overground Theatre, Kingston upon Thames in 1976, followed by a tour of the UK with The Taming of the Shrew in 1977. He played Ross in and also understudied Macbeth himself in a regional tour to and . He played the title role of Julius Caesar at the Leeds Playhouse in 1979, did a three-month season at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1980/81 with appearances in The Revenger's Tragedy, amongst others, followed by performances of at the Royal Exchange Theatre in .

Back in London he acted in Eugène Ionesco's technically challenging play at the Bear & Staff pub theatre in in 1982, in George Bernard Shaw's Captain Brassbound's Conversion with at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1983, and played both Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in Shakespeare's As You Like It in the same year. Performances in When I Grow Too Old to Scream at the New End Theatre in and A Little Bit on the Side (a ) followed on a short tour in and around London. In 1984 he played Burgess in Shaw's Candida in a Frank Hauser production for a tour of the United States which also had him playing in . He played the part of Otto alongside in the musical Hans Andersen directed by at Guildford Rep in 1986, followed by Shaw's Candida at the King's Head Theatre in . He then appeared as Chaim Levi in Two opposite at the Roundhouse Downstairs, in 1987. A Man For All Seasons transferred from to London in 1988, with the film version being made the following year. Lloyd George Knew My Father followed at St Edmund's Hall, in 1990, followed by Robin Hood and Mad Marion and Herne the Hunter (musical) at the Canal Cafe Theatre, Kilburn Park in 1992, The Kingfisher in Southwold in 1993, Shaw's in Chichester the same year, and Beast on the Moon by Richard Kalinoski, directed by at the Battersea Arts Centre in London in 1996. By the turn of the century, Amer was concentrating his professional acting talents on films and television.


US tour
In 1984 The Old Vic Company went on tour to several cities in the Eastern United States with both Macbeth and Candida. The company opened in , at the University of Michigan Theatre on 6 November, followed by performances in Iowa City, Urbana in , Dayton and in , Clearwater in , Richmond, Fairfax, Harrisonburg and Charlottesville in , the US Military Academy at West Point in New York State, ending at Proctor's Theatre, Schenectady, New York on 16 December.


Films
Nicholas Amer's first film part was as a ' Https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/potboy#English/" itemprop="url" title="Wiki: pot boy">pot boy' in the 1950s' film (1950) with and . In the 1970s, film director asked him to play the Spanish ambassador Chapuys in his production of Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) starring and Charlotte Rampling. His next film was in the English-speaking version of Al-risâlah (The Message) (1976), shot in and starring . Amer acted as to Behrouz Vossoughi, the leading actor at the time and playing opposite Quinn, in Caravans (1978) and travelled to Spain to play one of the in The Nativity (1978) for 20th Century Fox. The following year, Amer played the Admiral himself in Nelson's Touch (1979), and also went to France to appear in Lady Oscar (1979). Back in London, he appeared in The Prince and the Pauper (1977) (released in the US the following year as Crossed Swords), with and , and The Bitch (1979) with .

The next year saw him back in France to play the French poet Mallarmé in Gauguin the Savage (1980). In 1982 he was in The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) with Anthony Higgins and , and some years later he revisited the part of Chapuys, this time in A Man for All Seasons (1988) with . Two years later, Heston asked him to play the role of Ben Gunn in a film of Treasure Island (1990) that he was planning, to be directed by his son Fraser. The role of in The Whipping Boy (1994) followed. He appeared as Mr Heinrichson in the short film Benjamin's Struggle in 2005, followed by the role of Mr Archibald in the short comedy film Waiting for Gorgo in 2009. Amer had a part written specially for him by film director and played the elderly, ailing Mr Elton in The Deep Blue Sea (2011), which starred and . The same year also saw Amer in The Awakening (2011) with . A year later in Heroes Return (2012), directed by for , Amer played the hero Private Jack Jennings returning to visit the graves of his fallen comrades in the on the border with . His final appearances were as the grandfather in Segment "G is for Granddad" of the US anthology horror comedy film ABCs of Death 2 (2014) directed by , as Oggie, a blind and elderly present-day resident of Cairnholm, in dark fantasy film Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and as Mr Abney in Max Van De Bank's film (short) adaptation of the M. R. James short story released in 2018.


Television
Experienced theatre actors were considered essential for television in the 1950s as programmes went out live in the early days of TV drama. Amer's first television part was in Emergency – Ward 10 (1957), the first hospital '', as the naval officer brother of Dr Simon Forrester, played by Frederick Bartman. Following this he appeared as the Italian opera singer Carlo Ponchi in Sing for Your Supper, the first ever TV musical for British television, written and composed by George Hall. Michael Elliott cast him as Sebastian in his and production of Shakespeare's (1957). He also appeared in the TV play Arrow in the Air by Henry Brinton and Kenneth Robinson, directed by for Associated-Rediffusion (AR-TV, later Rediffusion, London) (1957), and in the 1959 children's series The Red Grass, also for AR-TV. In 1960 he did The Roving Reasons and also a comedy for children's TV called The Old Pull 'n Push, which proved so popular he did The Return of the Old Pull 'n Push the following year. Appearances in The Pursuers (1961), The Avengers (1963),
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and a BBC TV production of (playing Rosencrantz), small character parts in Parbottle Speaking, For Whom The Bell Tolls (1965), The Root of All Evil? (1969) and Disciple of Death (1972) followed.

Then in 1976 adapted I, Claudius for television from the novels of , and Amer had the part of lover specially written for him and played opposite Sheila White. In 1977 he acted in Spaghetti Two-Step, in 1979 in an episode of The Professionals, in 1982, Whoops Apocalypse, Pig in the Middle and , and in 1984, The Tragedy of Coriolanus (playing the ) for the BBC's celebration of Shakespeare. Following these he appeared in Tender Is the Night (1985), Crossroads (1985), Artists and Models (1986), playing the middle-aged , and as a desk clerk in If Tomorrow Comes, filmed in (1986), Paradise Postponed (1986), Love and Marriage (1986), The Charmer (1987), Bust (1987), Fortunes of War (1987) (shot in with and ), Streets Apart (1988), Eldorado (soap opera set in Spain) (1993), the TV film Knights: El Cid, Soldier of Fortune (1997), an episode of (1999), Arrows of Desire (Channel 4 poetry programme) directed by Colin Still (2002), (2002), Story Teller (BBC children's TV) (2002), (2002), My Dad's the Prime Minister (2003), (2004), Merseybeat (2004) and as Arthur Leggott in an episode ('Midsomer Rhapsody') of (2005). His final TV appearance was as Prospero Santacroce in Borgia in 2011, which was shot in .


Radio
In 1999 Amer played the part of Old Thorny in the play The Witch of Edmonton for the , directed by Jenny Bardwell, and some years later played Pop in the A Walk to the Paradise Garden (2001) by for BBC Radio 3.


Directing
As well as his acting career, Nicholas Amer directed student productions at various London , including I Am a Camera by John Van Druten at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in , Southeast London in 1980. He also directed Thom Delaney's one man show The Importance of Being Irish (1978) at the Roundhouse Downstairs in , London. This collection of modern poetry interspersed with songs and later transferred to the in London and then to a tour of and other black in in 1979. Amer also directed The Sea Pearls black theatre company in The Unfaithful Woman by Sam Mangwane. In 1984, he directed the South African actress Bess Finney in Ellen Terry – The Harum Scarum Girl, written originally for by Montague Haltrecht, at both the Isle of Man Festival and the Edinburgh Festival.


Teaching
Amer began teaching in 1960 at the Central School of Speech and Drama, then at the Webber Douglas Drama School. He also taught at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and later at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in , Australia. Along with his teaching duties, he also gave lectures at the Pocket Theatre in Cairo, Egypt.

Amer had a long involvement with, and was Drama Adviser to, the Ernest George White Society & School of Sinus Tone where the late Arthur D. Hewlett helped him understand Ernest White's theory of controlling the voice from the sinuses.


Personal life
Travelling the world as a Shakespearean actor and a for two years was a welcome distraction from the problems of settling down. Marriage and family life had never been an option as Amer believed that it would kill his dream of devoting his life to Shakespeare. In 1965, after his second overseas tour, Amer went to the to see the Berliner Ensemble perform The Little Mahagonny. It was there at the after-show party that he met up again with Montague Haltrecht, the man who would become his life partner, a Jewish prize-winning novelist and a BAFTA nominee. They had first met each other briefly eight years earlier while Amer was appearing in Love for Love at the Theatre Royal, Windsor in 1957. They decided to live together, and in September 2003, following the setting up of the London Partnerships Register by two years earlier, Britain's first register for same-sex couples, they decided to join. Six years later, after the law governing same-sex couples changed as a result of the government's passing of the Civil Partnership Act 2004, they decided to take advantage of the new law. Montague Haltrecht died of cancer in March 2010, at home in Amer's arms.

Having suffered a fall at home in January 2017, Amer went to live at actors retirement home, where he spent the rest of his life, and died there peacefully in his sleep on November 17 2019 at the age of 96.


Approach to acting
Having survived the War and become an actor, Amer's approach to his profession was, in a word, reverential. He regarded acting as the most glorious job any servant of the public could aspire to, and he wanted to devote himself to it. His early successes, and the awards and honours they brought him, confirmed him in his belief that he had survived the war in order to dedicate his life to the works of William Shakespeare. As his career on the professional stage progressed, his common sense told him that to succeed in this he would also have to be very lucky. And indeed, after invited him to join his Gielgud Company at the Lyric Theatre he felt he needed no further confirmation that he was meant for Shakespeare.


Awards and honours
  • UK Government grant to attend the Webber Douglas School 1945
  • Webber Douglas Drama School Scholarship (declined in favour of UK Government grant) 1945
  • The Webber Cup, presented by Sir Donald Wolfit 1947
  • Best Foreign Actor Award, Buenos Aires Award Ceremony (co-recipient with Harold Lang, Greville Hallam and Ralph Gruskin) 1963


Filmography

Film
1950ServantUncredited
1972Henry VIII and His Six WivesChapuys
Disciple of DeathMelchisedech, the Cabalistas Nick Amer
1976Al-risâlahSuheilas Nicolas Amer
1977The MessageSuheilas Nicolas Amer
The Prince and the PauperKeeper of the Tower of London
1978Caravans Voice coach to Behrouz Vossoughi
The NativityBalthasar
1979M. De Chantilly, the pistol duellist
The BitchRestaurant Maître D'Uncredited
Nelson's TouchAdmiral Nelson
1982The Draughtsman's ContractMr Parkesas Nicolas Amer
2005Benjamin's StruggleMr. Heinrichsonas Nicolas Amer
2009Waiting for GorgoMr Archibaldas Nicolas Amer
2011The Deep Blue SeaMr. Eltonas Nicolas Amer
2011The AwakeningEdgar Hirstwit
2012Heroes ReturnJack Jennings
2014ABCs of Death 2GranddadSegment: "G is for Granddad"
2016Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar ChildrenOggie
2018Lost HeartsMr Abney


Television
1957Emergency – Ward 10Naval officer brother of Dr Simon ForresterFirst hospital ''
Sing for Your SupperCarlo PonchiFirst ever TV musical for British television
Sunday-Night TheatreSebastian"Twelfth Night" (as Nicolas Amer)
Arrow in the AirCypriot spy
1959The Red Grass Children's science fiction series
1960The Roving Reasons "The Catanian Catastrophe"
Armchair Mystery TheatreCustomer"False Witness"
The Old Pull 'n PushSignor Perelli"The Race"
"Confusion at Cloudburst"
1961The AvengersLuis Alvarez"Crescent Moon"
The Return of the Old Pull 'n PushSignor PerelliEpisode 1.1
HamletRosencrantz"The Dread Command: The Readiness Is All"
"The Dread Command: The Play's the Thing"
"The Dread Command: The Sovereign Power"
The PursuersPinky"The Hunt" (as Nicolas Amer)
1962Parbottle SpeakingDr. LeightonTV film
1965For Whom the Bell TollsCorporal"The Bridge" (as Nicolas Amer)
1969The Root of All Evil?Partner"A Bit of a Holiday"
1976I, ClaudiusMnester"A God in Colchester"
1977Spaghetti Two-StepArthurTV film (as Nicolas Amer)
1979The ProfessionalsKhadi"A Hiding to Nothing" (as Nicolas Amer)
1980Gauguin the SavageMallarméTV film
1981, 1983Pig in the MiddleSecond Waiter"Ships That Pass in the Night, Stopping" (as Nicolas Amer)
"The Native Hue of Resolution" (as Nicolas Amer)
1982Whoops ApocalypseFrench Agent"Lucifer and the Lord" (as Nicolas Amer)
1983Carlo"The Damask Collection"
1984The Tragedy of CoriolanusAedileTV film (as Nicolas Amer)
1985Tender Is the NightSpanish Patientas Nicolas Amer
Crossroads
1986Artists and ModelsCasanova"The Passing Show" (as Nicolas Amer)
If Tomorrow ComesCarlton Hotel desk clerkEpisode 1.3 (as Nicolas Amer)
Love and Marriage "Let's Run Away to Africa"
Paradise PostponedContessa's friend"Living in the Past" (as Nicolas Amer)
1987BustPhilippe"Write Off" (as Nicolas Amer)
Fortunes of WarPalu"The Balkans: September 1939"
"Romania: January 1940"
"Romania: June 1940"
The CharmerHotel Receptionist"Gorse, the Deceiver" (as Nicolas Amer)
1988A Man for All SeasonsChapuysTV film (as Nicolas Amer)
Streets Apart
1990Treasure IslandBen GunnTV film (as Nicolas Amer)
1993Eldorado Soap opera
1994The Whipping BoyLord ChancellorTV film (as Nicolas Amer)
1997Knights: El Cid, Soldier of Fortune TV film
1999Bill"Ghost's Forge"
2002Arrows of Desire Channel 4 poetry programme
Story Teller BBC children's TV
Spokesman for the jury
2003My Dad's the Prime MinisterOld Bloke 2"The Party"
2004Mr. Naza"Paul of the Ring"
2005Arthur Leggott"Midsomer Rhapsody"
Benjamin's StruggleMr. Heinrichsonas Nicolas Amer
2011BorgiaProspero Santacroce"The Bonds of Matrimony" (as Nicolas Amer)


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